Demetrius Frazier was convicted of capital murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown in Birmingham, Alabama in 1991. If the execution proceeds, Frazier will be the third inmate executed in the U.S. in 2025.

Frazier was the third inmate executed in the U.S. in 2025. Alabama executed Demetrius Terrance Frazier by nitrogen gas on Thursday, making him the fourth inmate in the U.S. to be put to death by ...

An Alabama Death Row inmate was executed tonight for the 1991 slaying of a woman in her Birmingham apartment, who he admitted killing after he got tired of hearing her beg for her life. Alabama Gov.

Demetrius Frazier, 52, was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m. at a south Alabama prison for his murder conviction in the 1991 rape and killing of Pauline Brown, 41. It was the first execution in Alabama ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier was executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia in Alabama for the 1991 murder of Pauline Brown. Frazier was the fourth inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that has ...

The execution of Frazier reignites the debate over the use of nitrogen gas as a method of capital punishment. Alabama became the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia in January 2024, and three ...

Alabama is set to execute its first inmate of 2025 in February, following a record-setting year of executions. Gov. Kay Ivey’s office on Tuesday announced that Demetrius Frazier will be executed ...

Demetrius Frazier became the fourth inmate in the US ... but Frazier flatlined about 13 minutes into the process, according to Alabama Corrections Commissioner John Hamm. He added that he believed ...

Stephen Cooper is a former D.C. public defender who worked as an assistant federal public defender in Alabama between 2012 ...

Frazier is facing a "barbaric, state-induced gasping and gruesome conscious suffocation," Stephen Cooper, a former assistant federal public defender in Montgomery, Alabama, wrote in a column ...

Demetrius Terrence Frazier was executed by state of Alabama, becoming the fourth person to die by nitrogen hypoxia. (Alabama Department of Corrections) The latest headlines from our reporters ...